. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. e branchlets are distinctly pendulousand feathery. The foliage is two-ranked, andspreads horizontally, or nearly so, each leaf halfan inch long, and of a dark shade of green. Conesare plentifully produced in this country, resem-bling those of T, canadensis, but having moreelongated scales and longer wings to the are of a distinct russety brown when fullymature. The tree, when favourably si
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. e branchlets are distinctly pendulousand feathery. The foliage is two-ranked, andspreads horizontally, or nearly so, each leaf halfan inch long, and of a dark shade of green. Conesare plentifully produced in this country, resem-bling those of T, canadensis, but having moreelongated scales and longer wings to the are of a distinct russety brown when fullymature. The tree, when favourably situated, is of rapidupward growth, the average of fifteen specimensthat I measured being 15 inches a year. By farthe finest specimen that I have measured is grow-ing amongst the Welsh hills at Hafodunos, andwhich produced in thirty-five years 48J feet ofwood, or fully i| feet a year. I have experimentedwith the timber of twenty-five years growth, andthough it is hard, not heavy, and of a pleasinglight brown colour, yet the lasting properties werenot remarkable. The partial immaturity of thewood would, to some extent, account for this. Thisspecies is worthy of trial for afforesting Face page ALBERTIAXA AT MURTHLY CASTLE. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 197 Conspicuous amongst trees at The Caimies,Perthshire, are the two magnificent specimensof the tree which bear the name of the latePrince Consort — Abies Albertiana. The seedswere sent to this country by Jeffrey in hisfirst Oregon expedition of 1850, and some ofthe earhest cones were sown by Mr. Patton,of The Caimies, in the following year. Thetree was at first kno\ under a variety ofnames, but on a photograph of the two bestones at The Caimies being shown to Her Majesty,after they were a few years old, she expressed adesire that the tree might be called Abies Alberti-ana, in memory of the late Prince Albert—aname by which the tree is now universally two at The Cairnies are not only grandspecimens, but t
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